George W. Jones

George Wallace Jones (12 April 1804-22 July 1896) was a US Senator from Iowa (D) from 7 December 1848 to 4 March 1859, preceding James W. Grimes.

Biography
George Wallace Jones was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1804, and his family moved to the recently-acquired Missouri Territory when he was six. He later moved to Kentucky, and returned to Missouri to study law. In 1832, he fought in the Black Hawk War, and he served as a territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives from Michigan from 1835 to 1837 and from Wisconsin from 1837 to 1839. From 1848 to 1859, he served as one of Iowa's inaugural US Senators, and, while he personally opposed slavery, he owned slaves, opposed the federal government from forbidding or criticizing slavery, and supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act. During the American Civil War, he was jailed on the suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies. He died in 1896.